--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, vegasvpplayer <vegasvpplayer@...> wrote:
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> > <<So I drove over to the M and spoke quietly with Joyce. I told her that if she continued to play, so would I. I told her that I was prepared to start playing again to "protect" my position and that I didn't believe it was possible for her to win. >>
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> Assuming Bob did this in a monitored area of the casino, I wonder what management's response would have been if the lady had gone to them and said Bob was making threats toward her and she felt she was being harrassed in their casino.
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Vegasvpplayer,
What kind of threat did Bob make? If you play, I'll play too? You have to stretch that one pretty far to call it a threat.
I see 2 gamblers going after a prize and each one letting the other one know what their intentions are. They are both going after a prize that only one person can win. Each dollar they are wagering is being wagered fully factoring in the possible first place payoff.
I had a situation a long time ago that has some similarity. There was a drawing and I had some tickets in the drum. Another player was doing the accordian trick with his tickets. The tickets clearly stated that any alteration or mutilation of the ticket invalidated the entry. I told him if he won, I would take the issue to the GCB and let them rule on it. He took that as a threat. I took it as we are both competing for the same prize and if you are going to do something to give you an unfair advantage, I am going to challenge. No threat, just a statement of intention. As it turns out, he got picked, I went to gaming and they ruled that folding a ticket up to increase its chance of being picked is not altering a ticket.
Now, in Bob and Joyce's situation, there wasn't any question of their actions being legal, but I still don't see any threat.
